Cheap Smartphone market stir early

The price range model only 2 to 3 million new Nokia X appears as Asus Zenfone 4 ... or are being sought more in the domestic market.

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Some months ago, the market is showing fierce race in the popular smartphone segment as major brands launching new models massively with the price range is only 2 to 3 million. Nokia is the name are striking most quickly when Nokia X in Vietnam just after 2 weeks was announced in MWC 2014. since the success of the Galaxy Y and Galaxy Young, Samsung also shows the focus back to the launch of Galaxy Trend Lite price cheap, though Trend Plus samples appeared not long.

Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite and Nokia X newly arrived in Vietnam market.

According to Mr. Mai Trieu Nguyen, the appearance of the Nokia X has made cheap segment more active. Capital never do Android and Windows Phone invested heavily, the brand launched Finnish rivals X makes other Android manufacturers by surprise, and forced to pay more attention to counter-attack. After Nokia and Samsung, in turn, Asus, Sony and LG launch cheap mass popular new smartphone, the configuration and features equivalent to Nokia X or Galaxy Trend Lite.

Besides, the reason why the company focuses on low-range smartphone segment more because this is still the product line with the best consumption market in Vietnam recently. Representatives of several large systems, said the model lies in the segment below 4 million as Nokia Lumia 525, Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus or HTC 8X and 8S are new discounts in the top-selling products within 2 months come here.

Besides launching new products, competition in the low-range smartphone segment also shows quite drastically in price. Samsung launched Galaxy Trend Lite at $ 2.6 million, even then, Nokia announced the price of X is only 2.55 million, lower than initially expected that many stores offer several hundred thousand Dong. The capital has not created many device footprint in the village, to the attention, the sample of the Asus Zenfone 4 is priced equivalent of 2 million dong (99 dollars), despite running Android pretty good configuration with dual-core processors and RAM 1 GB.

The majority of cheap smartphones major brands and prepare a new market presence possess better product configuration and reach the last year, such as dual-core chips higher speed, screen 4 inch range and running the new Android operating system.

However, the inevitable limitations. N nowhere Nokia X has good prices and configurations, but beautifully designed Android operating system pretty much limited; or the Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite Android open, good features but low configuration with single-core chip. Even Asus Zenfone 4, despite the attractive price of the same configuration, but only 1,200 mAh battery is something that many people still freak out.

Cheap smartphones under 4 million range product line is still good consumption levels in Vietnam recently.

GfK report shows that smartphone in Vietnam in 2013 had amounted to growth of 137%, sales of products sold increased from 3.02 million to 7.13 million machines. Users tend to shift from feature phones with basic functions to use smart phones, internet connectivity support, Wi-Fi, 3G more clearly expressed in the domestic market.

For users moving up from basic phones, smartphones cheap bring more features and better entertainment capabilities, the Internet connection is fast and easy with Wi-Fi and 3G. However, the battery life will not be equal.Besides, according to the player's comments smartphones, the majority use the Android operating system with common configuration and use the touch screen, so cheap smartphone is still inevitably slow or jerky phenomenon when using use, or possible suspension.

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